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Keeping correspondence between Tony Blair and George W Bush secret risks
fuelling suspicions about the Iraq war, Sir John Major has warned.

The former prime minister said that Mr Blair, his successor, should ask Sir
John Chilcot’s Iraq inquiry to publish the records for his own good.

After months of negotiations, the Iraq inquiry will use only “quotes or gists”
from 25 personal notes and 130 records of conversations between Mr Blair and
the US president when its report is finally published. No details from
President Bush’s letters to the prime minister will be released.